[clug] Updated version of VICI

[Brenton Ross]

On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 14:03 +1000, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:

> On 04/05/18 13:53, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 11:58 +1000, Tony Lewis via linux wrote:
> > 
> >> On 04/05/18 11:39, Brenton Ross via linux wrote:
> >>> (This is problematic - I have about 2400 packages installed on this
> >>> machine - so there is a fair chance that there might be other stuff
> >>> required.)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Brenton, have you considered using something like LXC to allow you to
> >> easily spin up instances of different distros to test your build process?
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
> > 
> > Since containers share a kernel they probably are not the answer for
> > running multiple distros.
> > My plan for the next iteration is to set up a set of virtual machines
> > (with multiple DEs) for testing.
> > Not practical just now - I need my NBN connection.
> > 
> > However I can see that containers might be useful for controlling what
> > is available during development and thus preventing the inadvertent
> > dependency on something unexpected. Perhaps on the next project.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Brenton
> > 
> 
> (waiting for my Centos 7 container to install Development Tools - the
> default Centos container I got previously was v6 and it doesn't have
> Qt >= 4.7...)
> 
> So, because Linus said "Don't break userspace", pretty much any old
> Linux distro will work fine in a container on any modern kernel. I
> regularly run all sorts of old distros in containers on a modernish
> host (Debian Stretch, in my case).
> 
> In fact, containers work better, in many cases, than full
> virtualisation, because the old device drivers are not always able
> to drive the emulated devices provided in recent VMs so well.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Bob Edwards.
> 

I guess that is something to investigate when I get around to setting up
my test lab.

Brenton